Finance Assistant

Join us as a Finance Assistant and make an invaluable contribution to our Food Safety & Biosecurity

At Fera, we’re making the world a better, healthier and safer place. We’re a joint venture partnership between Bridgepoint and Defra and we’re working proactively to protect the world we live in and the food we eat. Our teams are investigating plant and bee health, crop protection and sustainable agriculture. Join us and discover better as you deliver world-class science for the future.

Role: Finance Assistant (Treasury)

**Salary**: From £25,000

Location: Hybrid / BioTech Campus, York, UK
Working pattern: 37.5 Monday - Friday anytime between 7am & 7pm (flexi)

Start date: ASAP depending on recruitment and onboarding timelines.

What you'll be doing:

- Responsible for ensuring the bank accounts are reconciled daily including investigation and resolution of any differences promptly.
- Posting miscellaneous payments such as bank charges, interest, and other ad hoc expenses daily.
- Ensure liquidity is managed on a day-to-day basis between Bank accounts.
- Manage the relationship with the Bank from an administrative and personal perspective.
- Liaising with Accounts Payable to ensure that all other outgoing payments are posted on a timely basis.
- Supporting the Finance Manager with operational cashflow forecasting and actual files, including preparing reports for senior management.
- Provision of regular and ad-hoc reporting as required.
- Ensuring all processes and controls are documented and that sufficient controls are operated to ensure integrity of data and safeguarding of company assets.

What we're looking for:

- Background in Treasury preferred, ideally experience of cash management.
- Full Treasury experience is not essential but transactional / reconciliation experience is required.
- Strong knowledge of bank processes, previous experience in managing bank relationships.
- Experience of working to tight deadlines and managing a high volume of transactions
- Experience of working as part of a team and on own initiative with minimum supervision
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to build sound working relationships.
- Highly organised and demonstratable use of standard IT packages such as Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.

What’s in it for you?
- Competitive salary from £25,000 DOE
- 23 days’ holiday (rising to 27) with the opportunity to buy extra leave.
- Flexible working hours, on-site gym, restaurant, and free parking
- The opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
- Company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more.
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
- Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What we hope you’ll do next:
**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Canteen
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Transport links
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?

**Experience**:

- Treasury: 1 year (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Sand Hutton (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 10096077